Marnie (1964)
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Synopsis:
A serial kleptomaniac is suspected by the scion of the company for which she now works, and he coerces her into marriage. But there is more than one skeleton in her psychological closet.
Review:
This extraordinary property, from a novel by Winston Graham, in fact makes perfect sense in the light of Spellbound and Vertigo, and begins just like Psycho, but never quite hits its stride. There is an overwrought Herrmann score (his last, apart from the unfeatured one for Torn Curtain), and lots of fussing around the person of Miss Hedren, who apparently went through hell here again. The fake shots (horseback riding, shipyards) look even more so in colour, though Hitch cared little for such details. Connery plays a version of Devlin in Notorious, but even so is too cold; in fact the whole enterprise has a chill over it. Neither the fun and games of Psycho nor the passion of Vertigo here.
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Synopsis:
A serial kleptomaniac is suspected by the scion of the company for which she now works, and he coerces her into marriage. But there is more than one skeleton in her psychological closet.
Review:
This extraordinary property, from a novel by Winston Graham, in fact makes perfect sense in the light of Spellbound and Vertigo, and begins just like Psycho, but never quite hits its stride. There is an overwrought Herrmann score (his last, apart from the unfeatured one for Torn Curtain), and lots of fussing around the person of Miss Hedren, who apparently went through hell here again. The fake shots (horseback riding, shipyards) look even more so in colour, though Hitch cared little for such details. Connery plays a version of Devlin in Notorious, but even so is too cold; in fact the whole enterprise has a chill over it. Neither the fun and games of Psycho nor the passion of Vertigo here.
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Synopsis:
A serial kleptomaniac is suspected by the scion of the company for which she now works, and he coerces her into marriage. But there is more than one skeleton in her psychological closet.
Review:
This extraordinary property, from a novel by Winston Graham, in fact makes perfect sense in the light of Spellbound and Vertigo, and begins just like Psycho, but never quite hits its stride. There is an overwrought Herrmann score (his last, apart from the unfeatured one for Torn Curtain), and lots of fussing around the person of Miss Hedren, who apparently went through hell here again. The fake shots (horseback riding, shipyards) look even more so in colour, though Hitch cared little for such details. Connery plays a version of Devlin in Notorious, but even so is too cold; in fact the whole enterprise has a chill over it. Neither the fun and games of Psycho nor the passion of Vertigo here.